The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
Society & Culture
Thoughts on whether the Enlightenment was necessary for the material progress we enjoy today (though perhaps not tomorrow). (The written version of this review was first published March 14, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats, are available here.)
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Jordan B. Peterson)
Against Masks
How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life (Seneca & James S. Romm)
SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build (Jonathan Waldman)
Can It Happen Here? Authoritarianism in America (Cass Sunstein, ed.)
Starship Troopers (Robert Heinlein)
God Is Not Nice: Rejecting Pop Culture Theology and Discovering the God Worth Living For (Ulrich L. Lehner)
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Lawrence Wright)
Windfall: How the New Energy Abundance Upends Global Politics and Strengthens America’s Power (Meghan O’Sullivan)
The Judiciary’s Class War (Glenn Harlan Reynolds)
Lord of All the Dead (Javier Cercas)
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror (Victor Sebestyen)
Mine Were of Trouble (Peter Kemp)
The Apple and the Arrow (Mary and Conrad Buff)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris)
The Decadent Society: How We Became a Victim of Our Own Success (Ross Douthat)
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (Robert Louis Wilken)
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow’s World (Charles C. Mann)
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